No Bomb Today

No bomb today.
I spent most of my morning going around town to find a specific type of battery; an KL 1145. There’s three of them in my daughter’s stuffed cat, which used to meow when you pushed it. It no longer does, hasn’t done so for quite some time, so yesterday I decided to change the batteries. Anyway, standardizing those small batteries should be high on the list of battery manufacturers, as there must be about 101 different models on the market. Nobody had the KL1145, but after some searching it seemed that the KL1145 was compatible to the SR44W, which wasn’t available either, but that one was compatible with the 357 (which, by the way, is compatible to another 21 different batteries of different manufacturers). Anyway, mission accomplished. For 9,000 pounds ($6), the cat is meowing once again.
Then I went to buy groceries, had a cart filled with about $200, when at the cash register it turned out that, since it was October 1st, my credit card was expired. I could take my groceries anyway if I promised to pass by on Monday and pay the bill.
Tried to go to the movies, that didn’t work because they had changed the show times.
Ramadan is about to begin (October 5th). We don’t fast, but it seems just about everyone else in Beirut does, at least on the West side of town, which is predominantly Muslim. Ramadan means that life comes to a grinding halt about two hours before the Iftar, which is dinner time at sunset. Shops close early, and during the day most shop personnel is half asleep. A good thing though is that right at Iftar, there’s not a car on the road, which makes it very easy to drive through town. Ramadan will last a lunar month, which is about 28 days.
I made a nice picture of the little old lady yesterday, during the afternoon prayer time. She lives In the building across from us. You do not really get to see her a lot, but yesterday I noticed her praying. She does not do it on the floor, but seated. You do not see that very often, I guess it has to do with old age. You don’t see her face, just her hands.